Waymos fully driverless minivans are already putting people to sleep

Recently, Waymo began inviting members of its Early Rider program in Phoenix to take trips in its fully driverless minivans. These are normal people who signed up back in 2017 to serve as guinea pigs for the Google spinoffs experiments in self-driving transportation. And, as you can see in this new video released Tuesday, the experience is equal parts thrilling and boring.

In the video, the passengers giggle nervously at the sight of an empty drivers seat, wondering aloud whether passersby are also slightly freaked out, and making casual references to the future. Then, very quickly, as is common among most ride-hailing passengers, they start to zone out. They look at their phones, they yawn, and one even falls asleep. When they…